RadioActive 8/23/07

Producers/hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne

Topic: This week as Presidents Calderon (Mexico) and Bush, and Premier Harper (Canada) met in Montebello, Quebec, Canada, many unions, organizations and others gathered to protest the “Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America” (SPP). Today we talk with Stuart Trew of the Council of Canadians and learn what the SPP is, how it impacts trade and “homeland security” practices and why corporations and those in power favor it while there is widespread popular opposition. We’ll also hear about the use of agents provocateurs at the protest.

FMI: www.canadians.org, www.integratethis.org

To view the video of protesters exposing the agents provocateurs in their midst, go to this YouTube link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=St1-WTc1kow

RadioActive 7/26/07

Producers/hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne

Topic: An interview with Bo Lozoff, author and co-director of the Prison-Ashram Project and co-founder, with his wife Sita, of the Human Kindness Foundation. Some of his books include: We’re All Doing Time, now in it’s thirteenth printing, and the recent It’s A Meaningful Life—It Just Takes Practice He will be speaking at several locations in this area in upcoming days.

FMI: www.humankindness.org Direct link to schedule of appearances: www.humankindness.org/events.html

Also: Volunteers for Hancock (County) Jail Residents, www.jailvolunteers.org

RadioActive 6/14/07

Producer/host: Amy Browne

Guests: Stacie Jacques and Amy Hutchinson

Topic: Aerial spraying of chemicals on blueberry fields in Maine communities raises health concerns

FMI:

Maine Committee for Alternatives to Pesticide Spraying: [email protected] or 207-326-9240

Toxics Action Center: toxicsaction.org or 207-871-1810

Board of Pesticide Control: Director Henry Jennings, [email protected] , www.maine.gov/agriculture/pesticides 28 State House Station, Augusta, ME 04333-0028 (July meeting: July 27th, 9:30 a.m., location to be determined)

Pesticide Drift Stakeholders Committee, Lebelle Hicks, 207-287-7594, [email protected] (Next meeting is July 9th, 9:30 a.m. at Penobscot County Cooperative Extension Office, 307 Maine Avenue, Bangor)